Friday, March 23, 2012

The Secret Circle- Curse

What Happened-

Cassie and Adam wake up in bed together and then got
outside to find Cassie’s yard full of dead blackbirds. John appears and tells
them that they unleashed a curse set against the Blake-Conant family. John
takes Cassie to Jane for more information, and she tells them that a witch
cursed the lines years ago, to keep them apart. If they don’t break the curse,
someone in Cassie’s circle will die. Cassie quickly attempts to make sure that
everyone is ok and finds Jake sick in his bed. There is a cure: an herb that
can be mixed into an elixir to save Jake. Most of the ingredients can be bought
at Calvin’s shop from his niece who runs the store in Calvin’s absence.

Cassie and Adam go to the woods to search for it,
bringing Jake along. Jake acts like a jerk, hallucinates, and then reveals that
he killed Calvin. Thinking Adam is Calvin’s ghost looking for revenge, Jake
starts to strangle Adam. Cassie throws Jake off of Adam, using her dark magic.
The only reason she does not hurt him more is that Adam is making eye contact
with her and screaming, “No dark magic!” They find the root and make it back to
Cassie’s house. John Blackwell tells them that the elixir will make them forget
their love. Sadly, the elixir isn’t strong enough to work on Cassie. It only
works on Adam, and Cassie is left devastated.

Dawn confronts John and tells him a) that she knows he
still has power and b) she knows there is no such thing as the Blake-Conant
curse. John fesses up to this. He faked everything, even Jake’s sickness, using
magic. John reveals that Ethan and Amelia wanted to run away together when they
fell in love, and their abandonment resulted in the boat fire and all the
deaths on it. John also tells Dawn that witch hunters are still after their
town’s witches and that there is a witch working with them. Charlie pays a
late-night visit to Jane in order to use the crystal to fix her. Their goal
once Jane gets her mind back? Destroying John.

In B plot, Faye goes looking for Lee and nearly gets
Melissa and Diana arrested for helping to break into Lee’s car, searching for
clues. Faye realizes that Eva has some of her powers. Faye breaks the totem
under Eva’s bed, taking away Eva’s power. Faye tells Eva that she can’t bring
the corpsicled Lee back to life and leaves.

Comments- Y’all, Ern is rethinking her Team Adam
stance. Even though you can’t fight what’s written in the stars, everyone loves
an underdog, right? Everyone loves a redemption story too, and we may get to
see that with Jake, eventually. You know what’s sad about the CW? How the sex
scenes have to be nudeless and tame. We got to see Adam and Cassie jumping on
each other through a window last week, and we saw nothing this week. Still, Cassie
and Adam had sex. We felt so bad for Diana when we saw her face after she heard
the news. We guess the 17th episode is long enough to wait? Cassie
wakes up with perfect eye makeup like every girl on the CW.

At first we were like, “We’re really glad the loss of our
virginities doesn’t hit our fathers’ radar with a lawn full of dead blackbirds.
News bulletin! Your daughter just slept with the wrong person. Awkward.” However,
things are even weirder now that we know John was probably watching them do it,
keeping too close of an eye on Cassie, or having magic alert him to the
possibility of sex. He knew right when to make it rain dead birds. If only
every father had that method of ensuring abstinence in their daughters! You
wanna have sex? Well, it’s going to kill things. Birds and friends. It’s in the
Bible, look it up.

Ern thinks Faye is the prettiest girl she’s ever seen,
but Leeard disagrees. We also have a contender for ugliest thing we’ve ever
seen: Lee’s desiccated corpse. We could have used a better look at the thing in
order to tell for sure though. Poor Mummy Lee. Is he really gone for good? We
finally got to see Cassie’s grandmother! It’s been too long and we’re sick of
adults getting sidelined or shipped off. In general, this channel needs to
figure out what to do with parents and authority figures. Most teen shows do,
actually. The biggest culprits are Gossip Girl and Glee. You need to make the adults
just as human, complex, and likable as the kids.

The thing that did it best? Harry Potter. The supporting
adults were the most beloved and most interesting characters. Making them
mysterious, giving them shades of grey, and having them nurture protect Harry
at times gave them shape and a role to play. This show seems to be following
Harry Potter’s ways by bringing on John Blackwell. The more we see of Cassie’s
dad, the more we like him and enjoy having him around. He’s not a villain, but
we can’t fully trust him either.

We liked Faye’s determination to find Lee. For once, her
stubbornness led her to do the right thing. We were annoyed that Adam had to
lose his love for Cassie in order to save Jake. You know that means the love
will either come back or they will just fall in love again after a while. We
feel bad for Jake and were glad that John Blackwell gave him a self-worth pep
talk. We knew right away that the elixir only worked on Adam and not Cassie.
Poor girl. At least she has good taste in TV to keep her warm at night (Game of
Thrones).

The twist where there was no curse and John still had
power was sweet. We’re still not fully sure why he wanted to fake the curse. Is
being afraid of the Blake/Conant love or his grudge against Ethan enough of a
reason? Or is John just really that
committed to Team Jake? If this show actually killed another circle member, it
should either be Melissa (because she’s the least interesting), Diana (because
it would be the saddest), or Adam (because that would be the most shocking). This
show is good and we are seeing potential for it to be great. Six seasons and a
movie!

5 comments:

I loved this episode too! I am absolutely Team Jake, and I'm glad to see that you're starting to see why he's awesome. :) I don't know why, but I always root for the tortured soul, as far as guys in romances go. I am liking John Blackwell right now, because I think he's complicated and interesting. You're right, though...weird that he knew when Cassie and Adam were having sex. Like...really weird. It was kinda predictable how Cassie still loved Adam but Adam didn't love her. I saw it coming. But at least this will bring up opportunities for more Cassie and Jake.

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Ern is a lawyer. Ern's all-time favorite shows are LOST and Breaking Bad. Other favorites include Homeland and South Park. She also enjoys opera, water skiing, arguing, and movies. Ern responds to most of the comments, because they go directly to her phone. Ern also starts most of the posts and leaves them half done, as drafts, for Leeard to finish. As far as international visitors go, Ern is excited to see visitors from Germany, the UK, and Israel.

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